When benefits, designed to help employees deal with stress, family conflicts, financial planning, and health are underutilized it often leads to stress, absence and time at work spent dealing with personal issues. That’s why personal understanding is so important for engagement.
Our Choices are Driven by Personal Understanding and Appreciation
Understanding what something means to us personally makes all the difference. Think about the actions you’ve taken related to almost anything from buying a car, to selecting clothing, or even choosing a meal haven’t they been based on understanding the personal advantages. The same level of understanding applies to benefits and many employees don’t spend the time and energy, which is often a very challenging effort, to appreciate the personal value of a benefit they need.
Open Enrollment Benefits Are a Common Starting Point for Personal Understanding
Clients usually lead by asking PCI to help employees gain a better grasp of one or more of their employer-provided benefits. The most common requests involve health insurance, FSAs or HSAs and retirement plans, which are at times revisited during open enrollment.
Many Benefits and Programs Follow for Applying Personal Understanding
After conducting several annual campaigns to help a client improve employee personal understanding of their benefits PCI is often directed to help increase employee engagement in other valuable programs, such as Financial Wellbeing, Customer Service, Employee Assistance, and Retirement Program Participation, to name only a few.
Personal Understanding Depends Upon Personal Engagement and Facts
PCI technology, continuously enhanced over the last 22 years, is aimed squarely at each individual employee. Data downloaded from the employee census and/or employee responses to specific questions enables employee personal integration with their PCI interactive multimedia message and the statement printed at the conclusion of the message.
The last quarter of the year may be dedicated to open enrollment. For PCI clients a period during the remaining nine months is dedicated to boosting employee understanding and engagement. Selection of a convenient period requires an absolute minimum of HR effort and no financial investment.
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